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Most of this is common sense. Eat good food, prepared well and avoid processed junk. However, there were one or two surprises here -- especially corn as it usually gets a "bad rap" in the press.
Nice to know my coffee is good for me too! :)
Coffee should NOT be on this list.
It is very acidic to the body, which promotes heart disease. It is also the heaviest crop in the world that is sprayed with DDT.
Corn is GMO'd and is bad, bad, bad and oh yea, bad.
Organic corn is better but corn is still a worthless food in most aspects. Why do you think they feed this to cows? To fatten them up.
That being said, I still enjoy corn on the cob and also a coffee two times per week instead of two times per day.
Every study I've read in the past ten years has exonerated coffee. I think if coffee were denatured yak dung, health nuts would have us eating ten bales a day. But they just cannot let go of coffee. It *must* be bad for you somehow they seem to be saying.
I just had this discussion with a Brazillian friend this weekend. She has often told me that if you suggest that coffee is bad for you in Brazil they would laugh you out of the room. Many cultures live on coffee and live long and healthy lives. Both of my American parents are coffee addicts and are in their 80s. They drink coffee all day and have a cup before they go to bed at night. If they don't quit soon it is going to kill them.:-)
Can anyone suggest where to find Canadian harvested shrimp?
It seems most stores only offer the (dubiously nutritious and safe) product from Asia especially China.
I was in a store the other day which was offering Pacific Coast salmon packaged in China.....what???
good question. It is hard to find north american sourced fish in the grocery stores, and that's all we have around here.
Farm raised shrimp from Thailand are very good and are found in most stores. I agree with saying Chinese shrimp are bad. Of course Chinese shrimp are probably much better than Gulf shrimp nowadays.
Gulf shrimp is fine. I eat it at least once a week. Right now it is coming from the Texas waters, but expect the Mississipi & Alabama shrimp to be available in a few weeks. It will take a little longer for Louisiana shrimp to be harvested. Don't always believe everything you read in the papers.
My concern with shrimp from other countries is wheather or not they, and all other foods, are appropriately inspected. At one point I read that seafood from one of the Asian countries was being sprayed with chloramphenicol, a potent antibiotic that can cause aplastic anemia and can also produce resistant bacteria. Google "chloramphenicol seafood". I'm cautious about using any imported seafood products because of contamination.
And when I die Iwant them to say He died so Healthy there was nothing wrong with him/Her
We should all hope to die Healthy
Yes... so eat all the cheeseburgers, potato chips, french fries, and apple pie that you want... because nobody wants to be healthy. We all want to be obese, sedentary, ignorant, and die at an early age.
Idiot.
Ver1tas, that was just plain mean.
Not sure why you jumped on cheapster505, but I guess you have an ego to feed or something.
We are all going to die someday, but it's up to you to determine what quality of life you have now and when you get older. This starts today be eating unprocessed foods, staying away from GMO's, aspartame, processed sugars and the list goes on and on.
Buy organic, watch calories, excersise and don't believe everything the 'experts in the medical field' tell you. Do some research and find out the truth.
No, no ego... and don't assume I don't already do those things... it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
I was simply reacting with sarcasm to what was apparently a sarcastic dismissal of this article and of healthy living in general.
Personally, I appreciated the article because it highlighted studies done on several foods that we normally don't hear much about. No, I'm not basing my nutritional practices on this article alone. I simply thought it was an interesting read.
By the way, I do read what the medical experts write in peer-reviewed medical journals and will weigh that information much more heavily than anything you have to say to me, thank you very much.
You called another Viner an idiot, VER1TAS. Don't do that again.
also,the italian food culture,has proven superior .........u meatballs are missing the best food ever......tomatoes...and cooked tomatoes ,.which are very high in lycopyne content....that is why there is a low occurance of prostatecancer in italian men.....the overall italian lifestyle is the healthist.......im givin u pearls here u morons.....
...and I assume if I paid enough money, I could have my variety of crops listed too!
Cynical much?
darn i was hoping chocolate would be number one
i am a type 2 diabetic but on a diabetic diet; would that change any of these recommendations? thanks
dave, I'd go very easy on the corn, watermelon, grapes, and even the whole wheat pasta - all of which I understand are high glycemic and not good for those of us with diabetes
Dave, I'd check with your doctor and not a bunch of people up here who most likely know little more than you do.
I'm sorry, but I hate to see people with medical conditions using unknown internet sources (i.e. Newsvine posters who could be ANYONE) rather than checking with real medical professionals.
Dave,
I was borderline type two. Over a six month period I took one 500MG cap of cinnamon every day. At the end of six moths my numbers dropped from 6.9 to 5.6 . My diet was pretty much the same. At $4. a month it's worth a try. Good luck
Jack
i am 72 years young, long life runs in my family. 90 is not an unusual age at all. hope to make it
there myself with good eating habits.
No Big Macs?
Useless but interesting piece of trivia. Montgomery County, Maryland is the largest per capita consumer of Big Macs anywhere.
Diabetics have to measure everything. 1 tbls. of peanuts for a fat, my diet is no bread, not even wheat. 1 c of watermelon, not bad, only about 5 almonds for 1 fat per meal, will we get the same benefits as eating as much as is suggested? Of course , being vegetarian would be much better for diabetics.
The makers of Beano should sponsor this article.
no wonder I'm 85-1/2 and in excellent health- love all of the above plus chocolate- have lost more brain cells and still maintain more than the average healthy 35 yr old has today.
Good for you, toots! Keep up the good work. I hope to be there someday, too.
I try to eat healthy simply because I like being healthy and hope to remain mobile the rest of my life. I do not want to end up in a wheelchair connected to oxygen tank and totally dependent. It happens.
very interesting points and a good list also!!!!
This stuff kinda reminds me of a friend in college in the early 1960's. He had a VW Beatle and he became obsessed with not only the wonderful mpg he was getting but with additives that would add 10% and 15% and so on to his fuel economy. He kept meticulous records of his mileage. Except he became enamored of all of them. But as he was touting his latest fuel-saving wonder, he did not know know that we were going out at night and progressively adding more and more gas to his tank. He was soon getting 200 mpg in his Bug.
Then we started siphoning out progressively more gas at nights as he desperately put in even more additives to try to keep his mileage up to bragging levels. Eventually, at about 5mph we let him in on the joke.
I think all this eat this and take that is the same sort of joke.
Wow, great story Chris (30 seconds of my life I'll never get back)
i enjoyed the list, will change what i eat a little
"Eco-friendly farmed trout"??? Farm-raised fish is so toxic that even the business-friendly FDA recommends limiting your intake of farmed fish to ONE serving per month!!!
Bison? Skim milk? Shrimp? It looks like the meat and dairy lobbyists got to the columnist. Isn't "eco-friendly farmed trout" an oxymoron? It appears there was a buy-in by Monsanto, too. Unbelievable.
Lol Chris, with you on that one bro.
As I read these responses, everyone's a daggone expert on this--except the experts.
I'm sticking to what I'm already doing. Except for the kiwi's (bleah) and coffee (double bleah). For those I substitute bacon. Lots and lots of bacon. T'ain't no bacon in Heaven, 'cause if there were, we'd have heard by now.
Once and for all, please stop propagating the myth that eating cholesterol is bad for you, or that high cholesterol causes heart disease. This is the second biggest hoax of modern medicine. It just isn't so!
Scaring you about cholesterol is nothing but a marketing campaign to sell worthless statin drugs.
(The biggest public health hoax is water fluoridation.)
Hmmm ... you seem like maybe an Atkins diet kind of guy. We need some cholesterol in our arteries, it's a coating that we could not survive without. However ... too much and it plugs the arteries and leads to strokes and heart attacks. If you think eating a bunch of meat and dairy products is the way to go, and old man Jenkins ate nothing but meat his whole life and lived to be 90 (false inductive reasoning) good luck with that. Statistics are against you. Some lean meat and dairy is great, but your basic diet should be greens, whole grains, dense fruits (berries for example), nuts and then add in the meat and dairy products. Just my humble opinion, I could have a heart attack tomorrow and you may live to be 100 stan. :)
Atkins? I'll bet we have one of Dr. Barnes followers here... Not a pejorative, just an observation.
OK list IMO ... for whatever that is worth. Been studying and reading about health and nutrition for about 30 years, a fun and worthwhile hobby. I eat an ear of corn now and again but would not overdo it, and even if I was not a vegetarian would stay away from shrimp, they eat "ocean droppings and crud (sorry about that imagery) from what I understand. Walnuts are right up there with almonds, and broccoli, kale and spinach should be on this kind of list ... I know I should eat more greens, greens probably are the #1 food that should be the foundation of ones diet. Best of all through ... I eat a couple of squares of 85% unsweetened organic chocolate each day .. yeah boy.
Gee, i was gonna say something but all this food talk made me hungry. Off to the fridge for a midnite snak.
George B. -It's not too much cholesterol that clogs arteries - it's the oxidation of cholesterol. This is not dependent on the amount of cholesterol present. The dietary-saturated-fat theory of heart disease has been thoroughly debunked. Do some research at www.mercola.com.
For the record, I'm pretty much a raw-food vegetarian, and I'm not recommending a high fat diet, but they don't cause your arteries to clog, either. This is one of the biggest hoaxes in nutrition today.
If high cholesterol is what causes heart disease, explain this:
The Swiss have one of the highest average levels of cholesterol of any culture in the world, but very low rate of heart disease. The aboriginies of Australia have the lowest measured levels of cholesterol in their blood of any culture in the world, but have the highest rate of heart disease, by a mile.
Compare statistics across all cultures and you will find NO correlation between cholesterol levels and heart disease. None whatsoever. You've been duped by the pharmaceutical industry who just wants to sell you more cholesterol-reducing drugs.
Recent health research indicates some forms of circulatory disease may be an autoimmune process linked with inflammation. Risk of autoimmune diseases increases due to nutritional deficiencies and toxins, like pesticide. Use of pesticide is highest in Australia and lowest in Switzerland.
Cholesterol is the chemical substance that forms all cell walls and most cells are replaced every 7 years.